Faithful believers continue sharing Christ's love despite increased persecution.
March 15, 2006

India (MNN) -- The number of Christians facing harassment and persecution is growing every day. In fact the amount of persecution has increased especially in the last 30 days.

Gospel for Asia's President KP Yohannan is confused by the number of problems their workers are facing, because many thought the change of government would give Christians more freedoms. "When the BJP government was in power, honestly, we didn't have this much persecution. It is since the new government, the Congress government, is now in power, that we have seen such an incredible increase in persecution everywhere. And I don't know why. Maybe the when BJP government was in power they were more sensitive to toward portraying minorities in the light of the international community. But it looks like with the Congress government, we seem to be experiencing an incredible escalation in persecution."

Yohannan believes the extremists fear losing power over the poor. And as many people find freedom in Christ, accusations of forced conversions abound. Yohannan says, much of the persecution is because, and they see that happening as many are being liberated by Christ. Yohannan says they're not telling them, "Hey, we'll give you food and clothes and shelter if you become Christians." No! It is a matter of truly demonstrating Christ's love. The rest